One notable practitioner was Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire whose efforts on behalf of Charles James Fox in the 18th century included press relations, lobbying and, with her friends, celebrity campaigning.

Image: Thomas Gainsboroguh Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire 1783. jpg | Her Grace Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ( 1783 ), National Gallery of Art

Image: Thomas Gainsborough Lady Georgiana Cavendish. jpg | Her Grace Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, ( 1787 )

* March 30 – Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ( b. 1757 )

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ( née Spencer ; ; 7 June 1757 – 30 March 1806 ) was the first wife of the 5th Duke of Devonshire, and mother of the 6th Duke of Devonshire.

The film, directed by Saul Dibb, is based on the biography Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman.

File: Thomas Gainsboroguh Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire 1783. jpg | The Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough, 1783

File: Thomas Gainsborough Lady Georgiana Cavendish. jpg | The Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough, 1787.

* Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Amanda Foreman ( 1998 ) ISBN 0-00-655016-9 ( now published as The Duchess )

* Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, Brian Masters, Hamish Hamilton, 1981.

* Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, The Sylph, ed.

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An energetic campaign in his favour was run by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, allegedly a lover of Fox's who was said to have won at least one vote for him by kissing a shoemaker with a rather romantic idea of what constituted a bribe.

* Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

* In The Duchess ( 2008 ) film, a biography of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Sheridan is played by Aidan McArdle and The School for Scandal is performed in the movie.

Lady Georgiana Spencer married the Duke of Devonshire on her seventeenth birthday: 7 June 1774.

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*( 7 June 1757 – 3 April 1761 ) Miss Georgiana Spencer

On 5 June 1774, William married Lady Georgiana Spencer ( 1757 – 1806 ), a colourful character who became something of a national female icon of the late 18th century for her prominent role in fashion, politics and society in a predominately male-dominated environment.

* Lady Georgiana FitzRoy ( 8 May 1757 – 18 January 1799 ), who married John Smyth ( 12 February 1748 – 12 February 1811 ) on 4 June 1778.

* Lady Georgiana Spencer ( 1757 – 1806 ), married William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and had issue.

* July 2 – Georgiana Drew Barrymore, actress-comedienne ( b. 1856 )

* March 19 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, reputed to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser ever built and owned by the real Rhett Butler, is discovered off the Isle of Palms, South Carolina, by teenage diver E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after she was sunk with a million dollar cargo while attempting to run past the Union blockade into Charleston.

* July 11 – Georgiana Drew, American stage actress, married Maurice Barrymore in 1876, ( d. 1893 )

* Georgiana Howard, Countess of Carlisle ( née the Lady Georgiana Dorothy Cavendish ; called " Little G "; 12 July 1783 – 8 August 1858 ), married the 6th Earl of Carlisle and had issue.

*( 1 November 1765 – 7 June 1774 ) The Lady Georgiana Spencer

One of their children was Georgiana Carolina Carteret ( 1716 – 1780 ), who married John Spencer ( British politician ) and became the grandmother of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, as well as an ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales.

In 1856 Burne-Jones became engaged to Georgiana " Georgie " MacDonald ( 1840 – 1920 ), one of the MacDonald sisters.

* Georgiana Young ( 1923 – 2007 ), actress

Georgiana Carolina Fox, 1st Baroness Holland, of Holland ( 27 March 1723 – 24 July 1774 ), known as Lady Caroline Lennox before 1744 and as Lady Caroline Fox from 1744 to 1762, was the eldest of the Lennox Sisters, immortalised in Stella Tillyard's book Aristocrats, and the television series based on it.

* Georgiana Harcourt ( 1807 – 1886 )

* Lady Georgiana Grey ( 17 February 1801 – 1900 ); never married

Sir Francis Richard Grey ( 31 March 1813 – 22 March 1890 ) married Lady Elizabeth Howard ( 1816 – 1891 ), daughter of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle and Georgiana Cavendish ( daughter of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ).

The first, most notorious, and most significant, which antedated his engagement to his future wife, was with Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, whom he met at Devonshire House – the centre of Whig society in London in the 1780s and 1790s – shortly after his arrival in the capital as a young recruit to the House of Commons.

Although it was not used as his main residence, his wife Georgiana Spencer, a prominent but controversial figure in fashion and politics whom he married in 1774, used the house as a retreat and as a Whig stronghold for many years, being the place of death of Charles James Fox in 1806.

Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland ( 21 May 1806 – 27 October 1868 ) ( née Lady Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard ) was the daughter of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle and his wife Lady Georgiana Cavendish, who was a daughter of the famous Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.

* Lady Georgiana Augusta Leveson-Gower ( 13 Apr 1769-24 March 1806 ).

* Lady Louisa Georgiana Beauclerk ( 28 December 1806 – 18 February 1843 ), married Thomas Hughan

Sutherland married Lady Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard ( 1806 – 27 October 1868 ), daughter of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle, on 28 May 1823.

* Lady Charlotte Mary Anne Georgiana Osborne ( c. 1806 – 1836 ), married Sackville Lane-Fox and had issue.

* Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles Chatterton ( 1806 – 1876 ), British traveller and author